**JAMES WALD**
At the time
*Beginning of June
Me: I'm leaving for Paris finally to find my mother.
My grandfather: your father would hardly approve of this choice.
Me: Except he's now 6 feet under. (I say it while smoking)
My grandfather: you speak with more respect young man.
Me: Respect?! It needed a mother for that.
My grandfather :
Me: I didn't wish to be an illegitimate child. (shouting): and no I didn't ask anyone! I want to find my mother. I am now taller now.
My grandfather: if such is our choice.
Me: I'll go at dawn, Karl is preparing my luggage.
Him: yes sir.
Damn it's been more than 17 years since I've seen my mother, not 07 but 17 shit! Surely you've been waiting to talk about the illegitimate son of the great businessman, well if not my name is James Wald.
I did not know my mother because according to my grandfather she had separated from my father shortly after my birth. I have to know my origin so I have to find it.
The next day I take my first flight to France by canceling all my appointments as well as my contracts, my job is not at all the easiest in the world because it always requires the plane to represent my country, you defined I am an EMBASSADOR.
After 2 hours of flight we land, my mother is Éléonor LY, one of the most famous pianist of France, j. I did not take long to go to his place of work.
me: hello
I see the secretary turned around and giving me the most beautiful smiles.
Her: what is this pleasure worth to me sir?
Me: I'm looking for Eleonor LY. Please lead me to her.
Her: do you have an appointment? (sensually she says)
She tries to give me cat eyes but that's not what I'm here for.
Me: tell her that JAMES WALD wants her, she will quickly understand the message.
Her: are you her lover? She is in a relationship I report to you and....
I lose patience not letting him finish his impertinent sentence.
Me: Shut up and just run.
From her expression I can tell she's in shock but so much the better, she walks away with the most sensual of gait which I honestly decide to ignore.
She came back casually.
Her: she said she doesn't see anyone!
Me: Show me his office.
Her: to the left of the reception....
Me: thank you.
Her: What do you want to do?!
Without answering him I head for the elevator slipping a hand in my pockets, in business everything counts as well as time.
Without bothering to knock I enter.
Me: Hello dear mother.
Éleonor (surprised): Jimmy! (dry tone) Get out of here sir.
Me: I came to see my mother.
Her: Get out of here immediately because I'm not your mother.
What me ?
Her: you are illegitimate, a child born of an adventure and above all don't you dare tell people that you are my... I hate the word. Go away, I don't want my reputation to be tarnished.
For the first time in my life I JAMES WALD hurt, my pride is hurt, my pride. I feel anger and sadness take over, I force myself not to shed tears, a man doesn't cry. When I think of all this trip that I had to wait for years and years I feel that I lose control, Against all odds I started to smile.
Me: I'm not leaving here dear, if you didn't want me to be here you just had to take your pills.
Her: I can't stand your impertinence young man, Mei call security and throw this garbage away.
Men came in, holding me by the arms.
Her: hit him. No one disrespects Éléonor LY.
Man: Are you sure ma'am?
Her (yelling): I say nobody! Throw him out of here and double the security. You're just nonsense james like your worthless father, I hate you because you ruined my life, you should have died when I did this abortion but here you are and you are ready to destroy my work know I hate you, I hate all that damn WALD family.
I clench my jaw so as not to cry, I've never felt so humiliated by someone and the worst it's someone is MY MOTHER, the one who gave me life, she said it while we beat me up.
Her (between her teeth): that's because you came into the world, you ruined my life, you illegitimate son, it's because of your perverse father that all this is happening to me. He drugged me and then he abused me and you know what happened? Another pervert like him, I hate you Walds, this damn adventure should never have been.
After all those words I felt so dirty I was born to a perverted father? Am I wrong? I found myself at the door, I knew what humiliation is, I ordered my guard and my driver to make space for me. I started driving fast, so fast that my vision was blurry. I took refuge in a bar under this storm.
I don't drink cause I never get drunk, I injected myself 4 packs of drugs I had to forget, forget that I'm a mistake, that I shouldn't have been there, I felt hate in me, Around 2 o'clock I started to have control again so I hit the road again. On the way I felt something heavy forming in me.
-Hey sir, said a young girl to me
Me: what do you want from me
Her: My name is acassia, why so late at night?
Me: I'm throwing the question back to you
I was trying not to lose control.
Her: I'm going to see my fiancé (Smiling)
Me: so much the better...
I wanted to restart when again she called out to me.
Her: hey no no no wait, you can take me back to....
Me: I'm not your driver.
Her: oh but what a crocious character! But it's so dark if I die you'll have my death on your conscience.
After miles and a reflection, I told him to go upstairs but I felt my heart was against it while I decided not to listen to him anymore, I will never listen to him again from now on. It's stuff for the weak.
I started, she was just chatting the whole way. The women !
I start to see blurry, the drugs start to take over, I try to control myself but in vain.
Her: are you sure that cava?
Me :
Her: be careful sir!!!
I turn around to see a big truck carrying dark wood on us, I try to move away but my vision is so blurry that I see double. I shouldn't have taken the wheel, drugs are the only thing I can't control.
By letting go, I had just enough time to reach the cries of the young girl before collapsing in my seat.
I open my eyes little by little and find the young girl on a rolling bed, my vision is still a little blurry.
I see a man crying on his bed, this picture makes me feel guilty, it's because of me that she is like this
- Sir, how are you?
Me: how is she?
Agent: I'm afraid she's paralyzed.
He had not finished his report when an officer came to ask me some questions.
Officer: who are you driving?
Me (After a long silence): it was me.
Officer: According to the doctor, you were on drugs, is that true?
I do.
Officer: So you still took the wheel knowing that you risk staying there.
I do...
Officer: why did you bring the girl back in this case?
Me: I really intended to.
Silence
Officer: You are under arrest, Mr. WALD, firstly for injecting drugs in the first degree and for violating article 24.4.
They took me on board, I felt something in me this broken, First of all I blamed myself for having condemned this young girl to paralysis but thus for having had pity, I felt my heart this harden, was having one too many, first rejected by the woman who gave birth to me after this accident, this fucking accident.
Pity? Never again, joy? I don't care, a heart? I don't have any more, my only option is drugs now, I don't believe in anything anymore, IN NOTHING!
To be continued....
Chapter 2: discovery.
** JAMES WALD **
[Other people judge us through our cover without yet opening our book but few of them know the reasons that built us]
Sitting on this table, I see my past life. I was rejected by others because of my illegitimacy, all believe that growing up I will become like the man I called father, some parents did not want their children to have fun with me so that I do not many friends, My only friend is my grandfather, the one who raised me and who taught me everything, who put up with my whims, having grown up without a mother I rebelled, I blamed myself to be there. I thought I found comfort in the arms of a woman, it turns out that I was wrong because she left after giving me all my bank cards. I don't make the same mistake three times, my body has learned to live without a woman and I imposed this rule on myself. All My childhood was not only suffering and rejections what taught me accepted my life, I forged myself to become the JAMES WALD that I am.
It's been a few months since my criminal record was cleared after this accident, I transfer a sum of money each month for the care of the girl who was with me in the car, the driver of the truck died on the spot according to the latest files.
Ring....ring.....ring
I pick up while finishing recording some E-mails received.
- Sir, the flight is ready.
- Have my driver come. I said.
- Right away mon....
I hang up before making a call to one of my collaborators.
Around 8 o'clock I took the first flight to Brazzaville. I had to go to my grandfather's for a while. Once I arrive in front of the agency, I put on my dark glasses, my guard carries my facts and follows me to the entrance.
-Mr. WALD, they all said getting up.
- Hello gentlemen, I say, we can talk about business.
We take place before starting.
-Mr. WALD, we cannot accept the offer that Cameroon is sending us, said one of my collaborators.
-Mr. diallo please keep your comments, it is up to your boss to decide and not up to you.
A silence becomes king, another partner takes the floor. I listen to them all before I get up.
-Mr. WALD, We were happy to do business with you. He said to me holding out his hand
-The pleasure is shared, I say, shaking it before leaving.
-Drive me to the address indicated, I order my driver.
- But sir there will be some embou......
Did I ask your opinion? NO, so you close it and start it.
I return my attention to my files, It starts.
DANIEL WALD
He's coming home today, It's been almost 5 years since I last saw him. JAMES has become distant and I respect his loneliness.
-Grandpa I'm going to pick up Yvette, her driver had a last-minute illness. Jamil tells me
-You can go, I said, closing my book.
Yvette and Jamil are my oldest son's children so they are both JAMES' cousins, although their relationship is a bit static as their parents weren't very close.
A FEW HOURS LATER
I get a call from JAMES, I ask my assistant to put him on speakerphone.
-I've been looking for a tow truck for my car for over an hour. he said
-Don't move from there, I'm coming. I say taking my keys.
It tells me the address while I open the GPS.
Once arrived, his agents load the suitcases in my car. I take him in my arms, It's been almost 6 years since I had not seen him again. We leave around 10 p.m. It's only with me that he's a little more open, although he doesn't talk too much.
By turning I almost knocked over a young girl, I go down to go towards her.
- how are you, miss?
- Yes cava sir....
She raises her head, I'm actually surprised.
-LUCIA.... but what are you doing at such an hour? I ask him
- I'm waiting for a taxi. She tells me.
-That's good, you're lucky, you're having dinner with us.
-But Sir....
-I insist. I'll call your dad to tell him you'll be home tomorrow.
She enters the car, very polite this little one, it's the complete opposite of her sister. His father and I are very close because he was one of my very brilliant apprentices. Today he runs a hospital and I can say that he is doing well. Even if their mother hasn't really been there to see this day, I can say that she is proud of their little family (Peace has her soul)
We continued the journey in silence, JAMES only had eyes on his computer.
*
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We all eat in a good mood, It's every day that I would have liked to see this. Everyone is talking except you know who. He put down his fork at the second bite then left the table apologizing briefly.
"Come and let me show you where you're going to spend the night," said Yvette.
LUCIA stands up muttering a thank you before leaving the table.
They go away leaving me with JAMIL.
-How's your job going ? New customers? I ask.
-Yes, but the boss has decided to give us a few days off. he said
-Very well.
LUCIA
When I wake up, I let the water run down my braids, I love taking hot showers because it makes me less sad, since the death of MICHAËL (my fiancé) I opened an investigation because we never return his body and since then I like to be surrounded by people and that for two years.
I finish taking my bath before putting on my clothes. It's 6 am I have to hit the road to go to school, the baccalaureate is in two weeks. Yvette has to accompany me so that I take the bus, I don't know the neighborhood too well.
I search her in a few rooms, no way to call her out loud, I risk disturbing her. I enter one of the bedrooms, everything is tidy. I inspect the place, it smells good but most of the colors are dark. I don't really remember Yvette's room anymore, maybe it's a new decor.
I wait for the sound of water, someone is surely taking a shower. Little by little I head towards the place. He's the man who wasn't too talkative, he only has boxers on him and.... he's sexy to tell the truth, he's from behind, am I coming in from a dream?
-What are you looking for ?
I panicked so much that I fell on my buttocks, His voice brought me back to earth, while I dreamed he had already put on his towel.
-Are you deaf? Or do you want me to repeat myself?
LUCIA you are in deep shit, my conscience tells me.
To be continued....
#Chapter 3: The slap of the century.
**LUCIA**
Finally I got to work on time, it's not always easy to be a cashier in a supermarket. If Yvette hadn't intervened earlier in the man's room, I'm sure I'd be in trouble.
Today there are no customers so I decided to take my laptop, I'm off to read * tales of Zoé Gardennia * I've always been passionate about reading. A man has just left my boss's office before heading towards me.
-Where are products and food classified? It's a bit big I think I got lost. he said
- the products on the left and the foods on the right, do you want help? I ask
- No abstain, you are very kind as a young girl. My name is Serge miss uh....
-LUCIA.
-Ah LUCIA do you want a date?
My gaze falls on his fingers, he's married.
-No thanks.
-Ah, don't worry about the ring, my wife hasn't satisfied me for some time so I'd like to see elsewhere. He says.
-Go get her treated, it wouldn't be very courteous to cheat on an 18-year-old girl, wouldn't you think?
-Very wise for your age but stop playing the saint or touch you don't know what you're missing.
I smile at him, I hate infidels.
- the products are over there.
-I was delighted to meet you LUCIA. We will meet again one of this 4.
He's leaving, Ah men! Since MICHAËL's death, men aren't really my thing any more, given that with MICHAËL I went just because it was an option. I considered myself tall so I had to, Here in Africa, women are there to make babies, right?! When I was told that he had had this accident and that his body had never been found, that's when I decided to no longer see my life as a custom, I freed myself from these rules.
I finish the rest of my day, I enter the transport before continuing on foot.
Arriving I find my sister in the kitchen preparing I don't know what.
- little one of me, how are you? (Joking)
-Ah who are you traitors of small? Chuipss.
I wash my hands before coming to join her.
-And dad?
- He's on call tonight.
-OK...
She put platinum on me, I tasted them before going up to study, the baccalaureate is coming soon.
KENDRA
I came in finding my sister revising, I took my towel before going to the bathroom which is just at the end of the hall, once finished I put on a dress with straps, it shows my whole back and she is incredibly sexy.
-Where are you going ? she asks
I finish putting on my lipstick before turning back to her.
-to mourning.
-Hm...seriously where are you going?
I finish applying my perfume.
-I'm going to a party.
-and why are you lying to me?
Silence....
-You know ? You need to quit this shitty life and focus more on college. She says
Pfff she pisses me off with her "good girl" manners
-That's why I didn't want to tell you, you're always there preaching, go get the faithful at the bar and stop getting drunk with your manners. Pfff
I took my bag before opening the room.
-Seriously KENDRA you have to stop.
- FUCK YOU!
I slam the door for her before leaving, Damn what am I doing to deserve someone like her?
I took the car before leaving.
*
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The party takes place in a nightclub and is going very well, I am with TYFFAN the man of my life as well as several people. This is my place, others judge me but what do you know? I just live my life and I'm in control of the situation.
I drank too much, damn I want to vomit. I head to the bathroom to spit out everything I've consumed. I wash my face when I raise my head, I wait for the sound of the lock.
-Who is here ? I say without turning around.
Silence.
I turn around to see that two men have entered, they are armed. SHIT.
-What do you want ?
One approaches while the other bursts out laughing.
- Seriously what do you want? If it's the money, take my bag.
He kept moving forward.
-FUCKING YOU HAVE NO LANGUAGES?
He put his gun in my mouth, I was so terrified that I pissed myself, my sister was only right, God had spoken through his mouth if only I had listened. Now I'm going to die, my tears started coming out. With the life I lead where would I go if I die?
-We are less clever, speak again. Said the man holding the gun, Go fuck your face.
He draws his other weapon then PAM he shoots in the air, I'm so afraid that my feet will let go.
I scream, I cry, I scream but no one comes, the volume of the music is too loud.
- Well you have two choices, rape or death.
I'm terrified that nothing will come out. The image of my sister comes back to me, I must not leave it.
-SPEAK !
I jump.
-The.....the rape.
- Did you wait for the lady? Bring out the camera.
The other man brought out the camera while the other there took off his pants. Hey lord!
It was worse than the torture I was dead, I thought of my father and my sister. I had cried so much that nothing came out.
When they finished they left. I rinsed off, no one should find out what happened.
I put my glasses back before going to buy a juice.
I did not delay from this party, I rented a hotel with the money that TYFFAN had given me. Once alone I started crying again, God is unjust.
JAMES WALD
I finish my swim before changing, on the way down I meet my grandfather and the others at the table.
-JAMES when did you get home? Join us.
-No thanks.
-Come on JAMES, says Yvette with soft eyes.
-I say no !
-OK...
They continued their meals, I went to help myself to water before going up.
(In English): Contact me for the rest of the program.
I wait for someone to knock on the door, I wave him in without bothering to look at him, I continue to work on my new project.
-Sorry. You are busy....
-Yes
-Okay.... I came to talk to you.
I finally bother to look at it.
-Yvette: tomorrow is my snack and I thought that your presence would do me the greatest good. You'll be there ?
-Nope.
-You've said no to me twice, please try to accept. Besides, I want to know my cousin more.
I sigh, not easy to have a little silence.
- Ok, I'll think about it.
She wanted to jump on me but I stop her with a sign. I hate overly sentimental people.
-Okay..... okay. Good night.
I rest my attention on my project before it comes out.
After taking my shower the next day, I put on my costume to put on my dark glasses.
My guard opens the door for me, taking my briefcase. I make a few urgent calls before turning on my computer.
*
*
LUCIA
I leave my room, passing my father sitting in his armchair.
-Where is your sister ? He asks
-She was in mourning (lie)
-OK....
I don't take long to go out, I take the bus to school, Today is not really my day of service so I'm free.
*
*
After my lessons I take my facts before taking the exit.
*Phone ring*
Ring...ring...ring
I take it.
-Yes Yvette, what's the matter?
-Nothing, I wanted you to attend the party.
-Yvette......
-I know you hate parties but please make an effort, It's for my snack only.
- Ok, I'll come. I say with a sigh.
-Youpiiiiii also said to your sister from the past. she said before hanging up.
I came home to find my sister lying down, she didn't calculate me, well, me neither.
-Yvette had her snack, she's organizing a little party tonight, she wanted me to let you know. You leave ? His driver comes to pick us up.
-No (Voice broken)
-OK...
I take my bathrobe to go take my shower.
- I beg your pardon, LUCIA...
The great KENDRA apologizes? It's wrong, there's something wrong. I approach her before sitting on the bed.
-Do you want to tell me about it?
- No I'm not ready, not now. She says.
-Ok I'll be there, I said giving him a kiss.
She smiles weakly at me, I feel like she cried. Finally I took my shower by putting on a night blue dress.
I came out finding the car, I got in.
I give Yvette a kiss, we come in there are lots of people.
-And KENDRA?
-She didn't feel well, I said.
She smiled at me before taking the microphone, I inspect the place. It's not home but it's warm.
-Thank you all for being here, All I can say is thank God because I've been waiting for this snack for...
She puts the microphone back and we applaud.
*
*
The atmosphere is less tense, Yvette was making out with her guy on the other side of the wall, I pretend I didn't see anything so as not to embarrass her anymore.
The volume was so high, other people smoked while others drank.
Suddenly the music stopped, I looked up to see it was the man I had spied on when he was taking a bath. , There were whispers.
He slips his hands into his pockets as he descends the stairs.
-Good evening.
This voice, Yvette immediately freed herself from her type.
-JAMES....
-You tell your friends to clear my house immediately.
-JAMES the party does not end....
-I hate that my orders are contradicted, If I get angry it won't be very pretty to see, believe me.
No, but who does this guy think he is? So like this at home he crazy gns like common dogs?
- No one is leaving here.
I approach him, Yvette tries to stop me by touching my hand.
- No, but you still have to have a little kindness, Hunt people like dogs like that? This is inappropriate !
He said nothing, he still had his hands in his pockets, His gaze was darker than before.
- Oh what is it? Have you lost your language or...
He grabs my arms, I caught myself screaming.
-You go out one more word I'll kill you, I'm not too used to being talkative so you get out of here without making an argument.
-Let go of me.....
My tears were almost ready to come out, He let me go then Bam!
I don't know how my hand landed on her cheek.
To be continued*...